MEETING MINUTESCalendar Notes
PAWA Publishing Workshop - Postponed
Look for further info in the PAWA March Quarterly, at the March Membership Meeting & here on the news page of the website.
Cost is $25 per person
We must have minimum participation of 6 people...hopefully we will have 10 or more. We can accommodate a maximum of 15.
Breaking News!
Congratulations PAWA VP Richard Brugger
We are thrilled to announce our Vice President of the PAWA Board, Richard Brugger was appointed Auburn’s first Poet Laureate by the Mayor Pete Lewis, on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
http://socialcapitalreview.org/auburns-new-poet-laureate-strips-away-the-varnish/?mid=56846
NEXT QUARTERLY MEETING:
Tuesday, March 13, 2011 11AM - 1PM*
(note time is 1 hour later than usual due to new library hours)Enumclaw Library
1700 First Street 98022Speaker: To Be Announced
FUN! Our very own Vice President Richard Brugger's poetry has been set to animation by his daughter Jessie - Check it out!
Thanks to our December 2011 Speaker: Don Hagen
Don Hagen, speaker at our Winter General Meeting, is a retired history teacher from the Auburn School District, where he spent twenty-nine years at Cascade Jr. High, and four years at Auburn Riverside High School. His latest (and first) book, recently completed, but as yet unpublished, is THE BRAIN MOLDER—“Adventures of an Unconventional Teacher.” The book is a collection of stories about “molding” the minds of his students, and also chronicles many of the scams and practical jokes he initiated during the time he was in the classroom.
During his years in Auburn, Don scheduled a phony college extension class and had over fifty people signed up to take “Sex and Violence in the Schools,” supposedly taught by Dr. Irving M. Horne. He also hung his picture in the Administration Building outside the superintendent’s office next to the famous graduates of Auburn, until it was discovered after six weeks, when it was unceremoniously removed.
Many of Don’s capers also included his students, such as orchestrated “supervisor observations/evaluations,” where one year, with the conspiratorial aid of his honors history class, they presented a perfect observation and Don presented his pre-written evaluation to the principal. The next year, also with his honors students’ aid, they proceeded to create the worst possible lesson, including just about every prearranged interruption a teacher could have.
Another time, his students mounted a SAVE THE NAUGAS campaign, decrying the use of nauga skins utilized in the manufacture of Naugahyde. They made graphic posters, held a rally in the courtyard, and had half the student body sign a petition to the President of Bolivia (the supposed home of the nauga) urging an end to the exploitation of this endangered creature.
Since his retirement, Don and his wife Sue have built a Queen-Anne Victorian home on an acre east of Auburn, where he tends his six very spoiled hens, living in their Victorian coop, CACKLEBERRY MANOR, raises vegetables, works in his woodshop, and continues to write. Much of what he writes deals with his life experiences, which are many and varied.
Meeting Minutes from December 13, 2011
Meeting Minutes from September 13, 2011
Meeting Minutes from June 14, 2011
PAWA on the KING-FM Arts Channel!
On August 11, 2009, our President Robert Gaylord, our VP Richard Brugger, and our PR Officer/Webmaster Diana Fairbank did an interview with Marta Zekan, Director of KING-FM's Arts Channel about PAWA.
Part 1 of interview here.
Part 2 here.
Click image for printable pdf enlargement.
PAWA President Robert Gaylord & KING-FM Arts Channel Director Marta Zekan
